Organisers of the 2025 Virtual Conference on Computational Audiology (VCCA2025) are calling for submissions on research, innovative projects, software, tools and other applications related to computational audiology.
The online conference on 26 and 27 June is free to attend and aims to unite hearing scientists, innovative clinicians and audiologists from across the globe to stimulate innovations for people with hearing loss.
“We especially welcome young scientists, clinicians, engineers, and researchers working at the intersection of audiology, neuroscience, AI, and digital health,” the organisers said.
The Computational Audiology Network online forum is organising the conference.
Dr Jan-Willem Wasmann, a medical physicist audiologist at Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands, founded the network in March 2020 as an online forum to share knowledge and tools related to computational audiology.
The network tries to bring experts from different disciplines such as AI and audiology together to stimulate hearing innovations.
Keynote speakers include Professor of Electronic Systems of Medical Engineering at TU (Technische Universitat) Berlin Dorothea Kolossa, National Acoustic Laboratories director Dr Brent Edwards, and Assistant Professor in Intelligent Systems, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin Giovanni Di Liberto.
Wasmann, a member of the organising committee for the conference, said it was inviting submissions related to computational audiology, including, but not limited to:
- AI and machine learning in audiology
• Hearing healthcare technology and innovation
• Auditory neuroscience and brain-computer interfaces
• Speech recognition, speech enhancement, and noise reduction
• Teleaudiology and remote audiology services
• Acoustic signal processing for hearing aids and implants.
Topics for VCCA2025 include:
- Modelling hearing and hearing loss
- Field-related measurement and validation, e.g., teleaudiology or remote care
- Cognitive and neuro-audiology
- Cochlear, brainstem and vestibular implants and post-implant rehabilitation
- Speech enhancement for hearing aid wearers, speech source separation and enhancement
- Digital tools and big data in hearing care
- Accessibility and inclusive design in hearing and audiology
- Translating academic research results into clinical practice
- Other novel research related to AI and hearing
- Other research on the clinical impact of the changing landscape of audiology.
Dr Wassman thanked the network’s scientific and technical committees and board for their invaluable contributions. Other members of the conference’s organising committee are Dr Seba Ausili, research scientist in auditory neuroscience at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Florida, and Assistant Professor Carlos Benítez-Barrera, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison, who is also principal investigator and executive lab director of the Waisman Center.
Awards and prize money
A VCAA2025 Young Scientist Award which includes $1,000 will recognise the best contribution to the conference. Additionally there is a $500 award for the best video pitch.
Presenters can indicate their preferred time zone on the abstract submission. Tentative session times have been provided for Manchester, UK and Lagos, Nigeria; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Sydney, Australia and Miami, US.
The abstract submission deadline is 25 April 2025. Click here for details.
